The bike performed well, with the carridice-style bag mounted under the seat. No real saddle, neck or wrist discomfort (at a few points the pads of my hands felt unconformtable). Thank you Selle Anatomica for the great saddle -- it's sweet to spend 11+ hours in the saddle without complaint.
I made a couple wrong turns with the cue sheet, and learned that if I wasn't sure to take a quick peak with the phone's GPS (I had downloaded a cue list and made a new google map that showed the way points, so it was a pretty easy check). The phone battery wouldn't have lasted the whole day between taking pictures, emailing some of them, updating this blog, and GPS checks. So it was good that the Village Coop let me use my wall charge (which I had thought to bring along). Might be good to have a spare battery for a future long ride.
Speaking of cue sheets, the sheet that I used off of ridewithgps was pretty bad. Lots of little glitches where it sent you up a spur road for .1 miles then back, which made things confusing. The lesson learned here is to hunt for a real queue sheet that a human has built, rather than one that came off someone's GPS ride tracker. Here's the official seven hills wheelmen sheet -- that's the one to use next time I do this ride.
That's all for now folks, other than a last pic of what it feels like at hour 12.5!
